On Sept. 12, 2023 at the View Royal council committee of the whole, a spokesperson for the Urban Development Institute Capital Region, told View Royal council during public input: “UDI is not a lobbying group.”
Not only is the UDI a legally registered lobbying group, according to the BC Lobbyists Registry and the Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists, but the spokesperson, who said they are not a lobbying group, is actually registered on that registry, as their “in-house lobbyist.
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